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One big call went against Dublin. It was a square ball for Kerrys 2nd goal. I am not convinced on the other 2. I think it was a foul on Joe O'Connor. It was not shoulder to shoulder. Not sure if all the ball crossed the line either. I do agree that technology is needed for these decisions. Ladies football already use this so why not use the same here. In fairness the umpire was nowhere near where he should have been.

I do think Kerry were the better team overall. Would Thomas Kennedy have gone for a point near the end and would Clifford have gone for goal if Kerry were behind. He had the legs on the Dublin defender here.

Dublin did kick a lot of wides but in fairness there was a strong enough breeze so you cant fault them for some of their misses. Kerry kicked one or 2 bad wides in that 2nd half as well

Ger Brennan will win the AI with this Dublin team. He has done a great job with them. I think he is a top manager.

aidan64 (Kerry) - Posts: 674 - 13/07/2026 11:06:18    2685553

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Why don't they just bite the bullet and each province employ say 4 full time referees. They would have a weeks work each week between third level, colleges, inter county and proper training, preparation and analysis. Then for the latter stages you have all of that pool of 16 involved as umpires etc in Croke Park all micd up. That's the only fair way to do this. The GAA have the money and the days of some school teacher rocking up with 4 of his friends to officiate a frenetic high stakes game in front of over 80k people should be over. I don't blame officials, I think the game has moved on to a level fitness and intensity wise but refereeing hasn't moved with that.

smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 612 - 13/07/2026 11:46:03    2685566

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Replying To Fionn:  "To have all 3 big decisions be incorrect is not acceptable Barney.

Hopefully their luck, as Jack called it, runs out in the Final.
Will Mayo finally break their hoodoo - very unlikely tbh, but we all live in hope…. ;o)
lol

A quick word on Kobe - what a talent he is.
Unbelievable potential.
And only 18. Wow.
Superb."
They weren't all incorrect though. The square ball obviously was but the penalty call was correct (it's a stupid foul by O Cofaigh Byrne but it's definitely a foul) and the disallowed goal isn't clearly wrong either. I've seen a bunch of angles in it and I think you can squint a d imagine the compressed ball is fractionally over the line, but even then I'm not sure. You're saying it as if it's obvious and it most certainly is not. If those two calls had gone against Kerry I'd be fairly annoyed. That says they were marginal ones. Not clearly wrong

MunsterFan (Kerry) - Posts: 33 - 13/07/2026 12:02:57    2685572

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Will Paul Geaney victory speech be in Irish or English?
Hear big celebrations to be held in Dingle this day two weeks.

hlynch12 (Limerick) - Posts: 196 - 13/07/2026 18:28:39    2685644

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Dublin scored a legitimate goal. Kerry got one that was not.

That's the way.

Leanfaimid ar aghaidh

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4483 - 13/07/2026 20:41:28    2685657

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